The Complaint of NatureThe complaint of nature, Yale studies in English, v. 36 (1908), Translation of De planctu natura. by Douglas M. Moffat. Pagination preserved in etext form. |
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... clear calm of the eyes , which attracted with s friendly light , offered the freshness of twin stars . Her nose , fragrant with lovely odor , and neither out of measure low nor unduly prominent , had a certain distinction . The nard of ...
... clear calm of the eyes , which attracted with s friendly light , offered the freshness of twin stars . Her nose , fragrant with lovely odor , and neither out of measure low nor unduly prominent , had a certain distinction . The nard of ...
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... clear light . On this , as a truthful 95 picture asserted , the mythical children of Leda ad- vanced and welcomed each other with mutual em- braces . In like manner , three stones , whose power was of second degree , had set their ...
... clear light . On this , as a truthful 95 picture asserted , the mythical children of Leda ad- vanced and welcomed each other with mutual em- braces . In like manner , three stones , whose power was of second degree , had set their ...
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... clear face smiled upon the maiden's approach . Tossed at first in the madness of the north wind's anger , now it rested pleasantly in the lap of Favonius . Birds , through some natural inspiration , sported with delightful play of wings ...
... clear face smiled upon the maiden's approach . Tossed at first in the madness of the north wind's anger , now it rested pleasantly in the lap of Favonius . Birds , through some natural inspiration , sported with delightful play of wings ...
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... clear con- firmity , be brought from their like along the lawful 350 path of sure descent . Me , then , He appointed a sort of deputy , a coiner for stamping the orders of things , for the purpose that I should form their figures on the ...
... clear con- firmity , be brought from their like along the lawful 350 path of sure descent . Me , then , He appointed a sort of deputy , a coiner for stamping the orders of things , for the purpose that I should form their figures on the ...
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... sweet evil , evil sweetness , pleasure bitter to itself , whose scent is savory , whose savor is taste- 1 Reading et satiata , with Migne . less , grateful tempest , clear night , shadowy day 46 [ METRE V The Complaint of Nature.
... sweet evil , evil sweetness , pleasure bitter to itself , whose scent is savory , whose savor is taste- 1 Reading et satiata , with Migne . less , grateful tempest , clear night , shadowy day 46 [ METRE V The Complaint of Nature.
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¹ Reading Alain Alain de Lille another's anvils appearance avarice Bacchus banished beauty Ben Jonson birth body Charybdis chastity cithara clothed cloud coin color command concubinage countenance Cupid Cypris delight diadem divine dost earth edited with Introduction Emending Ennius evil face faith false falsehood Favonius favor flattery flatulence flood flowers garments gave gender Generosity Genius gifts glory Glossary grief guile hair hand harmonious head heaven Hippolytus honey honor human Hymen Jonson kiss labor light lust lyre madness majesty marriage marvelous matter METRE Migne mind mother mystery Nature ness night numbers Old English passion peace Ph.D picture Planctu plebeian poverty praise predicate pride PROSE reason rejoiced riches scorned Scylla seemed shine shipwreck silence sleep solemn song sorrow speech splendor stars stones stray suffer sweet tears thee thine things thou tunic Tyndaris Venus vices virgin virtue wandering wanton wealth wisdom Zephyrus
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Page 49 - ... if it does not transgress the determined boundaries of the dual activity, or its heat boil to too great a degree. But if its spark shoots into a flame, or its little spring rises to a torrent, the rankness of the growth demands the pruning-knife, and the swelling «• and excess requires...
Page 3 - Natwa, in order to call attention to the prevalence of homosexual feeling; he also associated the neglect of women with sodomy. "Man is made woman," he writes; "he blackens the honor of his sex, the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender"; nobly beautiful youths have "turned their hammers of love to the office of anvils," and "many kisses lie untouched on maiden lips.
Page 3 - ... orphan. The sex of active nature trembles shamefully at the way in which it declines into passive nature. Man is made woman, he blackens the honor of his sex, the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender. He is both predicate and subject, he »• becomes likewise of two declensions, he pushes the laws of grammar too far.
Page 45 - ... in the outskirt world I stationed Venus, who is skilled in — the knowledge of making, as under-deputy of my work, in order that she, un^der my judgment and guidance, and with the assisting activity of her husband Hymen and her son Cupid, by laboring at the various...